Thursday, March 15, 2007

Some good ones.

We've had some good ones recently.

Possibly the best worst reason for bringing your child to A&E. A 13 year old was brought in by his parents because he'd put something into his ear... three years ago. Why did they wait so long to come in? He'd only just told them. He had no history of ear problems and unsurprisingly there was nothing still left in his ear.

We had a 15 year old brought in from school yesterday by LAS because he was vomiting. Turns out he'd smoked some cannabis on the way to school. He was looking pretty rough and feeling quite sorry for himself. Guess he won't be doing that again in a hurry.

A 2 month old was brought in because he hadn't slept in the last 3 days, at all. (Yeah, right.) So presumably the parents haven't slept in the last 3 days either? Or have at least taken it in shifts so can observe their son's lack of sleep.

We have a television in the waiting room that we can play children's films on, one of the Registrars was walking through and suggested that we should change the channel as "My daughter is a prostitute" on Jeremy Kyle might not be the most appropriate viewing! Sometimes I'm surprised at what makes day time television and what is shown after the watershed.

4 comments:

Mr Mans Wife said...

Oh my goodness, there are some strange people about!

Glad to see you posting again, it feels like ages.

Angela said...

It had been ages! And once again I'm playing catch up with some of the blogs, I feel like I've been so busy lately! I've also been unwell for about 10 days now, I've still been working but it's annoying that it's lingering.

Anonymous said...

I had a day in A and E recently and the triage nurse was getting o exasperated with the patients coming in he started asking everyone who came in if they had had an accident or if it was an emergency as this was the accident and emergency department. It was great fun watching the people squirm who hah had netiher!

Angela said...

Hehe, yes I know that one. "So what's the accident or emergency that has brought you to the accident and emergency department?"

But the patient group we deal with don't squirm. They simply reply "Too much vomit/temperature/cough, and miss the not-so-subtle hints!

Good to see you're still around Jenni, hope it's going well for you! :)